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Yes I agree with BCKD, most people already think google is the internet and how many of those have google as their home page. Google will always be no.1 but I don't think it is healthy for a business to have no competition it will only lead to complacency.

Yahoo Mail is still one of the most popular webmail services (if not THE most popular), Flickr is behind only Facebook when ranking photo sharing sites in terms of user numbers, Yahoo News is still insanely popular, etc.

Yahoo is a lot more than search (though I will agree that their relevance there is slipping)

Yahoo should not be the one we look at... MSN is the one going downhill, they have yet to launch a service that stands as a market leader (non software based). At least Yahoo can claim FlickR and Y!Mail as popular clients.

Why it that people have the misinformed idea that if a business is not the best in breed that it will immediately fail? Plenty of companies are still in business even though they may not be the biggest brand names. Yahoo! may have had some issues but they have some decent services like FlickR which co-incidentally is the most popular image sharing service. Microsoft are the ones in trouble, they have yet to provide a non-software service for the web which has managed to sustain any level of penetration, if you do not believe me, just go look at all of their "offerings" and I bet you can find something more powerful and more well known for all of them.